Sina

I think my school friends wanted to help me through my cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't.

Could you please translate or interpret this sentence :   "one long, drawn-out sacrifice"   in this paragraph? Plato and Aristotle and the Stoics spoke of a life not of happiness, but of character, developing the ability to sustain pain and make the appropriate sacrifices—as that's really what life was in their time: one long, drawn-out sacrifice.

A friend of mine once described parenthood as “basically just following around a kid for a couple decades and making sure he doesn't accidentally kill himself—and you'd be amazed how many ways a kid can find to accidentally kill himself.

Depending on your perspective, the philosopher Immanuel Kant was either the most boring person who ever lived or a productivity hacker's wet dream.